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Even whilst we are unable to operate to the public many of our volunteers still remain working behind the scenes to be ready for the return of operations.

We dearly look forward to this day in the near future. In the mean time we wish to day a HUGE thank-you to all our volunteers, as without their continued support we would not be able to operate our successful heritage train service to the general public.Can we please "like" this post to show your support to our dedicated volunteers. Who like many of you are missing all that is the Mornington Railway. ...

I'm a chef
These are my knives
The black handled serrated edge knife cuts an incision
Yellow handled swibo makes a clean separation of finger and bone
Blue handle is a meat slicing knife. So you would never use your fingers to steal other people's belongings anymore.
I would have no hesitation in slicing thieves fingers off.
Thieves shit me.
Only child rapists are worse.

There are many examples of pond life, or lower, that have no regard for any sentiment others may have, so the fact that it is a charitable institution is of little interest to them. All they are interested in is themselves and the money they can make from whatever they steal, usually to feed a drug habit. Hopefully they will be caught, but the likelihood of retrieving the stolen items must be fairly unlikely. It wouldn't be surprising if the plate has either been sold to some idiot collector or more likely melted down and sold on as scrap metal. War memorial plaques in UK were targeted some years ago for melting down, if people can stoop that low, nothing would surprise me.

Not good guys. Hope they get caught and the plates get returned

Gee I wonder who took the number plate....
*cough* Kobey Diamond *cough*

😡😡😡😡 sorry to hear guys, W241 was always a favourite of mine, I painted it back in the days when restored in WCR days.
I have a repo of the original plates if you need to get one cast again, but hopefully it doesn't come to that and you get them back

The tragedy is that MOST builders plates and number plates are actually stolen and sold. If you are a collector and you go to buy an item, if it doesn't have documented evidence of transfer of ownership it is STOLEN. None of the builders plates on modern locomotives reaching their end of life date have been sold or given away, they are stolen in MOST cases without authority from the actual owner of the rolling stock.

It's not collectable if it's stolen off working equipment or heritage related displays or even someone's private collection. I hope the people are caught as this has been going on for near two years with several places targeted. Don't know if it's all linked to one lot who's doing it.

That's not good. Bloody vandals😠😡🤬they just piss me off.

When your ready, please share cctv for circulation.

Before people play the blame game and flood with calls of who they think might've done it wait for CCTV pictures first and or strong leads. Alot of us collectors cop the blame for things we haven't done. You need to post the CCTV I don't see what the hold up is..if it was me I'd be putting it in the post to stop confusion. Of course it's a terrible thing to happen but people need to be much more on guard as theft is happening all over regardless of what the items are. But there's been an increase in railway related theft. I can't understand why people want to steal stuff of working equipment it ruins it for everyone in the rail hobby and even the tourists. Im regularly on eBay etc looking for railway items to buy and never see any stolen stuff on there so whoever is doing it is storing them away. You'd be stupid to put it on display etc. Hope they find out who it is then maybe we can all be left alone and stuff returned to owners.

with out pictures or CCTV its very hard to identify people in the community that have done this !

Dummond probably did it, or if not, would know exactly who did? I hope the items are returned.

You scubs. Not only all the products gone. Do they Realise it is all Vollenteer and work so hard to raise money to make people to have fun. Hope they are caught.😡😠😬😡

That's just horrible that someone's done this for the sake of money value or a collection. I know there's a thing with railway collectable things but this is lower than snake shit.

Kneecap them when caught -
I hope you get these back. This is very sad to hear. My great grandfather, grandfather and father were all railwaymen and I truly feel disappointed and angry this has happened.

What do the plates look like

Now Lockdown is starting to ease so are all the lowlifes around 😡Grrrrr

So sorry to hear of the damage done 😩

May b best to ring all cash converters up u may have a better chance hope y find everything good luck guys

If you could share the footage, that would be great. Someone will recognise the thieves.

Our volunteers are looking forward to the day we can return to normality, here is one of our volunteers interviewed by the Mornington Peninsula Shire. If you are interested in joining our tight-nit community, visit our website to join, we would love to have you apart of the team! morningtonrailway.org.au/membership-volunteering/

Thanks to David of Yorsys Photography for this great image of K163. We are very much looking forward to having the engine back at the lead of our heritage trains in the near future. If you wish to contribute to the overhaul click the link. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-k163-going...